This is an analysis of King Saul At Gilboa by Henry Kendall.
With noise of battle and the dust of fray,
Half hid in fog, the gloomy mountain lay;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabbccaXddeeffggccggffcchhggiihh jjiiffkklXffddddkkddhhggiiffXXddgXkkffffiiffXgggffggXdhmhhffddffkXhh nniiggffff oohhiiffgg XbeeffggiiffbXkkXnnmmffkkffkkllbb
- Stanza lengths: 32,68,10,10,33,
- Metre: 0101010101 1101010101 1101001101 1101110101 11010101001 0101010100 1101011101 0101010101 0101010101 110110101 1111010101 1111010101 1101010101 1101110101 1101110101 1011110101 01001010101 111101001001 010010101001 010100101001 11010010101 0101010101 1101010101 0111011100 1101011111 1011010101 1111010111 1101110101 1101011111 0101100101 0101010111 11010010111 1111000101 1111000101 1101010101 0101111001 1101010101 0101010101 1111000101 1101110101 1101011101 0101011100 1101111101 1101010101 1101010101 0101010101 1101010101 10111101001 1101011111 0101010100 1111011101 1101010101 1101111111 0101110101 1101011101 1101110101 1101111101 1001110101 01010101001 1101010101 11001011111 0101010101 0101100101 1101010101 1101110101 0101011000 1111111101 1001110001 1111011101 0101011011 11011101001 11001011001 1101110101 1111001111 1111110111 1111000101 1001011111 11010010101 1111010001 11110101001 1101010101 0101011101 1101010111 010010111001 1101011110 1101010101 1101010101 11110101010 1101010101 1111010001 1101111111 01010000101 1101010101 1001111001 0101111001 1101010101 0101111101 1101010100 1001110101 1101110101 1101101111 1101000101 1110110101 1011011001 1101010101 0101010101 0101010101 1101100101 0101010101 1101010101 1101110101 0011011101 1101010111 01010001001 1111011101 01010001001 1101110101 0111110101 1101110101 1111110111 1111010111 0101010101 0100110111 0111010101 1101010111 11010010101 1101000101 0101110111 1101011101 11010010101 1101111101 0111011111 1101010101 1101010101 1101110111 1101011101 0101010101 01011101001 01011101010 11011100110 1101010101 0101000101 0111110101 0101110101 1101010111 11001010101 1101011101 0111011001 01010010111 01010101001 1101110111 1111010111
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 6
- Lines: 152
Repeated words/phrases
of, and, shout, his, in
Anaphora
the, and, of
